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Ditone :: Ditone (n.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone)..

Major General :: Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps..

Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..

Boat-tail :: Boat-tail (n.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States..

Plurality :: Plurality (n.) The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority..

Majorat :: Majorat (a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

Drum Major :: Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major..

Major :: Major (a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone..

Dur :: Dur (a.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major..

Majorcan :: Majorcan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Majorca.

Drum Major :: Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4..

Commonalty :: Commonalty (n.) The majority or bulk of mankind.

Aid-major :: Aid-major (n.) The adjutant of a regiment.

Major :: Major (a.) A mayor.

Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..

Hagdon :: Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater..

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius..

Many :: Many (a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community..

Majority :: Majority (n.) Ancestors; ancestry.

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